Michael Salmon, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Florida Atlantic University
Biological Sciences/Building 12/Room 414 (office), Compound Rms 5-7 Room (laboratory)
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Salmon@fau.edu
(561)297-2747(office)
Course Materials for
"Behavior of Marine Animals" BSC6936
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Research Program |
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Research Interests:
Behavior of marine organisms, with special reference to orientation and
navigation, reproductive behavior, mating systems and sexual selection, and
biological rhythms. Animals of choice: Crustaceans, fishes, and sea turtles.
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Education |
- 1959 B.S.
Earlham College, Richmond, Ind.
- 1962 M.S.
University of Maryland, College Park
- 1964 Ph.D.
University of Maryland, College Park
- 1965 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow.
University of Hawaii, Honolulu
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Recent Publications |
- Adamany, S.L., M. Salmon and B.E.
Witherington. 1997. Behavior of sea turtles at an urban beach. III. Costs
and benefits of nest caging as a management strategy. Florida Scientist
60(4):239-253.
· Goff, M., M. Salmon, and K.J. Lohmann. 1998.
Hatchling sea turtles use surface waves to establish a magnetic compass. Anim.
Behav. 55:69-77.
· Steinitz, M., M. Salmon and J. Wyneken. 1998. Beach
renourishment and loggerhead turtle reproduction: a seven year study at Jupiter
Island, Florida. J. Coastal Res. 14(3):1000-1013.
· Oliver, L.J., M. Salmon, J. Wyneken, R. Hueter
& T.W. Cronin. 2000. Retinal anatomy of hatchling sea turtles: anatomical
specializations and behavioral correlates. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and
Physiology 33: 233-248.
· Mroziak, M.L., M. Salmon & K. Rusenko. 2000. Do
wire cages protect sea turtles from foot traffic and mammalian predators?
Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3:693-698.
· Jones, T.T., Salmon, M., Wyneken, J. & C.
Johnson. 2000. Rearing leatherback hatchlings: protocols, growth and survival.
Marine Turtle Newsletter 90, 3-6.
- Salmon, M., Witherington, B.E., and C. D.
Elvidge. 2000. Artificial lighting and the recovery of sea turtles. In:
Sea Turtles of the Indo-Pacific: Research, Management, and Conservation
(N. Pilcher & G. Ismail, eds.), pp. 25-34. ASEAN Academic Press, Ltd.,
London.
- Popper, A.N., Salmon, M. & K. Horch. 2001.
Acoustic detection and communication by decapod Crustaceans. J. Comp.
Physiol A 187:83-89.
· Kellmeyer, K. and M. Salmon. 2001. Hatching rhythms
of Uca thayeri Rathbun: Timing in semidiurnal and mixed tidal regimes. J. Exp.
Mar. Biol. Ecol. 260:169-183.
· Weaver, A. and M. Salmon. 2002. Hatching rhythms of Uca thayeri:
Evidence for phenotypic plasticity.
J. Crust. Biol. 22: 429-438.
- Horch, K., M. Salmon & R. Forward. 2002. Evidence for a two-pigment visual system in the fiddler
crab, Uca thayeri. J. Comp.
Physiol. A 188:493-499.
- Salmon, M. 2003.
Artificial night lighting and sea turtles. 2003. The Biologist 50: 163-168.
- Salmon, M., T. T. Jones & K. W.
Horch. 2003. Ontogeny of diving and feeding
behavior in juvenile sea turtles:
leatherbacks (Dermochelys coriacea L) and green turtles (Chelonia
mydas L) in the Florida Current.
(in press, J. Herpetology)
- Salmon, M. 2003. Lighting
problems at Florida’s oceanic beaches: lessons learned from sea turtles.
In “Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting”, C. Rich and T.
Longcore, eds. Island Press
(in press).
- Constantino, M. A. and M. Salmon. 2003. Role of chemical and visual cues in prey recognition by
leatherback posthatchlngs (Dermochelys coriacea L). Zoology (in press).
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Technical Reports |
- Salmon, M., Foote, J., and J. Wyneken. 1999. Impacts of coastal roadway lighting
on endangered and threated sea turtles. I. Coastal roadway lighting survey and a classification of
roadway “types”. Progress
Report to the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), 25 pp.
- Salmon, M., Foote, J., and J. Wyneken. 1999. Impacts of coastal roadway
lighting on endangered and threated sea turtles. II. Selection of experimental sites
for lighting modification. Progress Report to the FDOT, 8 pp.
- Salmon, M. 1999.
Impacts of coastal roadway lighting on endangered and threated sea
turtles. III. Effects of filtered lighting on
nest site selection by loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta L.).
Progress Report to the FDOT, 10 pp.
- Salmon, M. 1999.
Impacts of coastal roadway lighting on endangered and threated sea
turtles. IV. Effects of filtered lighting on
hatchling orientation. Progress Report to the FDOT, 9 pp.
- Salmon, M. 2001.
Effect of coastal roadway lighting on endangered and threatened sea
turtles. V. Embedded roadway lighting as a
management solution, 16 pp.
- Salmon, M. 2003.
Effect of coastal roadway lighting on endangered and threatened sea
turtles: Final report to the FDOT, 14 pp.
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